Synapse
⌘+K
Synapse
PulseExploreClubsResearchersJournals
Instagram
HomeClubsExplore
October 26, 2018Archives of Medical ScienceOpen Access

Prognostic role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Population

61 patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and 2413 Polish residents as a control group.

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

48 (23-79) months

Authors

KJKamil JonasJagiellonian UniversityMWMarcin WaligóraJagiellonian UniversityWMWojciech MagońJagiellonian University

Discussion

Loading...

Member takes

Implication

Metabolic profiling may aid prognosis in idiopathic PAH; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.

Structured PICO

P
Population
61 patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) and 2413 Polish residents as a control group.
C
Comparator
General population (2413 Polish residents) for prevalence comparison.
O
Outcome
All-cause mortalityhard clinical

Altered lipid and glucose metabolism profiles, specifically lower LDL-C and HDL-C and higher TG/HDL-C ratio and glucose, predict poor survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Cite This Study

Jonas et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a88ee7830fc94fc4b130bd8https://doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2018.79242
View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Also Consider

Synapse has enriched 3 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

  1. 12015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension2015 · 7,043 citations
  2. 2An antiproliferative BMP-2/PPARγ/apoE axis in human and murine SMCs and its role in pulmonary hypertension2008 · 370 citations
  3. 3Efficacy of Statin Therapy in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis2016 · 34 citations